Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Before he even picks out his office furniture upon being named MSU head coach, Mark Dantonio told the world he'd put a "countdown clock" up in the MSU locker room in order to tick off the days until the Michigan game.

Then, when asked about the Wolverines' loss this year to Appalachian State, Dantonio jokingly asked if he should have a "moment of silence" for the Wolverines.

Most recently, in the days leading up to last Saturday's M/MSU game, Dantonio asked how long MSU was going to continue to "bow down to Michigan."

In his press conference yesterday, Dantonio expressed his anger over Michigan players pausing for a “moment of silence” at midfield at the end of the game in response to Dantonio's Appy State comment.

“This game is an important game. If they want to mock us, I’m telling them, it’s not over. They can print all that crap all they want all over their locker room — it’s not over. It will never be over here. It’s just starting,” said Dantonio.

Yeah, great line for a shitty action flick, D-man. But weren't they simply responding to your mock-fest in September? Now you're complaining? Wow, what a set of brass ones.

Then, when asked about Mike Hart's comments in which he referred to MSU as Michigan's "little brother," Dantonio responded like an 8th grader trying to impress his friends in gym class.

“Does Hart have a little brother or is he the little brother?” Dantonio asked. “I don’t know, he’s…that tall.”

Dantonio placed his hand to his chest to illustrate Hart’s stature.

Ooooooh. Good one, Stifler.

These are college kids. And you basically called the Michigan players out with the clock shit and mocked them with you moment of silence line. So you think the Michigan players might have been a little anxious to do some talking of their own after they won? They didn't say shit before the game - you did. Let me say it again: you put a fucking countdown clock up in the locker room!

So get over yourself. Seriously. And if you can't take the response when you lose (due to some crappy coaching, by the way) then don't start it by talking shit in the first place. Because to bitch about it, when those you mocked first strike back, makes you look a little silly.

45 comments:

Exactly my thoughts! I read the story again this morning and I did not get the part of him mocking Hart's stature, that is NOT cool! I would bet money that if we had LOST our team would NOT in anyway have said anything bad about them. We have proven that already in the first two games of the season. AND to say that we were LUCKY.....that they felt they deserved to win? Seriously, the first half we played fine (Henne was off, but our Defense held them down) It is not as if we played like shit the entire game then came back and won. They beat us coming out from half time, then we took it back. Isn't that a sign of an accomplished team? We never give up, we fight to win....OHHHH it steams me!! He is an ASS and could be related to Urban Meyer. I don't care what you say.......I would take Carr anyday over dickheads like him. GRRRRRR!!!!

After we beat State again in '08 and '09, is Dantonio gone regardless of their overall record, or only if they still suck in general? Because if he puts this damn much focus on the game against us and can't win it in three tries, what does that say about him as a coach?

First thing first. To say UM-MSU is a "rivalry" is like saying Michigan fans love Ohio State. It's just not true. Rivalry implies that two equally matched programs battle each other supremacy, or at least meaningfully compete against each other. I'm a rabid Michigan fan, and sure I have a bias, but MSU as a football program doesn't even come anywhere near Michigan. It's not a rivalry. It's an intense intersate match-up. I am arrogant when it comes to MSU. Who wouldn't be? Michigan wins 70% of the time. MSU should feel in inferior. They ARE inferior.

As for our retarded cousin Mark Dan-ass-wipio, he's really in a position where he HAS to hipe the possibility of competing with Michigan and taking pot shots at Big Blue. I mean, the last guy got run out of town after never beating Michigan and they have never truly competed against Michigan. He's just trying to endear himself to the MSU fanbase -- a fanbase that HAS to be tired of getting beat my Michigan all the time. Plus, if MSU needs the moment of silence, the little brother comment, and a countdown clock to fire them up for the interstate rivalry, well, let's just say their program will always be in the dire straits and doldrums it's exibited since 1987. The guy's a douche, his program is a laughing stock, and I really could care less about ANYTHING anyone from MSU has to say.

BTW. I know I'm tired of losing to O-State, but it's just cyclical. We owned OSU under Cooper. Tressel has owned Carr. I was at the 2005 game at home when Troy Smith guided that last minute drive to beat us under Hermann's prevent D. I told the O-State fan sitting next to me that I know knew what it must have felt like under Coach Cooper. He laughed and said that he vividly remembers all the times he's walked away dejected after Michigan beat OSU. Now THAT's a rivalry.

i'm willing to admit that Hart shoots off his mouth a bit. nothing whacked- no "i'm a soldier" sorta crap, but he does say things that might better be left unsaid (ironically, Harbaugh had the same problem).

it's part of his enthusiasm and at the end of the day, he's still a 20 something year old kid. not an excuse, but it happens.

Dantonio? well, "he's a man. a 40 year old man", or something like that. he's supposed to be a grown up.

for him as a coach to even react to this in his presser is f'ng stupid. go ahead and let Hoyer piss & moan.

it's bad enough to react to the statements w/ a "we'll focus on this next year" sort of bland threat. how stupid is it to make "height" jokes, and declare it's personal? that puts him at the level of a little league dad arguing w/ the ump about calling his kid "out" at 3rd base.

he's the coach of a team w/ a 20 yr history of letting emotion, lack of poise, and a general lack of maturity blow games. part of what he's supposed to do is change the culture in E. Lansing.

How is putting up a countdown clock mocking the other team? Dantonio isn't stupid, he knows this game is huge to his team (probably not the other way around, but still) so yeah why not show a little enthusiasm for the UM game. It obviously worked, MSU has nowhere near UM's talent and gave them all they could handle.

I have to agree with Ram61. I don't know what part of the countdown clock is so offensive to the UM fanbase. And SiC is right, Hart talks way too much (he backs it up most of the time) and not only after wins or after he's been provoked by the opposing team.

He's an emotional guy, i get that, but there's plenty of emotional guys that don't feel it necessary to insult the other team with their post game comments.

Yost said the clock called out Michigan not that it was mocking, the mocking was the "moment of silence."

Carr would never do that when MSU loses to NW, Iowa or the other big ten teams.

Those who say that Hart's little brother comments will be used as bulletin board material, who cares. They have a frigging countdown clock to this game (apparently at the expense of all of their other big ten games which they happen to suck at). I don't think they will have any more motivation than they already do.

Dantonio showed his true colors. State will probably beat Michigan at sometime in the future. Maybe even next year when Fumblor takes the reigns and Hart is running rough shod over the NFL, but god I hope Dantonio is not around to see the next MSU victory over M.

Jehuu Caulcrick is just as guilty. He complains like the little prick (Caulprick!) that he is. Mgoblog pointed out that while he complained about sportsmanship, he was one of the ringleaders of the flag-planting at Notre Dame. Proof that no one from MSU has the right to complain about sportsmanship. Like someone else said, they can dish it out, but they can't take it.

And then they go saying the same usual crap about how we always come up with excuses when we lose and that we're fairweather fans. Michigan fans have not been fairweather fans this year. People in the media (ahem, Sporting News) have been saying that we would give up on the team, but we didn't. Attendance at games didn't even drop!

Regardless of what MSU says, responding in kind just brings UM down to their level. Who wants to see UM become another team of trash talking punks? Mikey needs to keep his mouth shut and play football. Michigan football is better than this.

I can only hope that you didn't run into the same problems searching for pics of 'huge balls' to get the pic for this story that you ran into searching for 'hot college guys' for that other story (the colt brennan gratuitous pic)!!!

An ellipsis [ … ] proves to be a handy device when you're quoting material and you want to omit some words. The ellipsis consists of three evenly spaced dots (periods) with spaces between the ellipsis and surrounding letters or other marks. Let's take the sentence, "BTW, hire someone to proof read for you 'mocked them with you moment of silence' Yeah, nice grammar...," where the ellipsis serves to replace the words, "oh shit, is 'proofread' one word, and is my sentence structure what it should be if I am riding someone else's ass for English mistakes on a blogsite? I'm such a douche."

I have never hated little brother more then I do now. Dantonio can joke around and make fun of Michigan, but once he gets a taste of his own medicine he runs his mouth like a child. It's not over he says over and over. Guess what Sparty its over you lost to your Big Brother again. You are still bowing down to Michigan.

Instead of being a good coach and moving on to your their next game Dantonio has to look back at the game they just lost. Move on and prepare your team for Purdue. So your team can make a bowl game, which will be very hard since they have Purdue and Penn State still left on their schedule.

I love that countdown clock...the clock in the photo should be set to 10 days 17 hours and 50 minutes and counting!(November 17th for you Michigan students) You can buy your Buckeye countdown clock at www.greatrivaliesusa.com. Go Bucks

Hart once again proved what a cocky arrogant player he is. Every game he talks more trash than anyone on the field, after almost every play he is saying stuff to the defense. And he is good, I'll give him that, but why make a comment such as the little brother one? Because he's just an ass, that's why.

Dantonio is taking the "rivalry" thing a bit too seriously, but come on. Say Lloyd loses to Ohio State again this year and is fired. I'd be disappointed if his replacement didn't have this kind of enthusiasm.

I am not a Michigan State nor an ND fan I just happened upon this blog and noticed something blatently obvious which all of you idiots failed to realize. The clock should read "Countdown to Next Loss to Michigan."

WingRG,

Nice spelling on scoreboard you inbred moron.

goat7ed,

Thanks for the English lession but the ellipsis in this case was to spare the writer of the blog any further insults from me. The ellipsis took the place of "you fucking moron." Call it taking the high road the first time around. Thanks for forcing me into using the profanity... (that ellipsis takes the place of "you pathetic asshammer.") Now go play with some dangling participles while you stroke off.

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